CH 37

In the blink of an eye, it’s already the end of July and the August King of Glory livestream competition will officially begin. So far, the list of participating anchors on the official website has exceeded 400.

This is a tournament jointly organized by Mewcat, Shark, Polar Bear, and the official King of Glory platform. The competition channels of the three platforms are completely open, and the participating anchors matched through the official account will only be from these three platforms.

Whether they can match with equally skilled anchors will depend solely on their luck.

After reaching the top of the weekly leaderboard, Xie Yao shamelessly messaged Praise and asked for their contact information.

In the end, Praise gave Xie Yao their QQ number, and Xie Yao ended up switching from using WeChat to using QQ frequently.

Although he restrained himself from bothering Praise too much and they may only exchange a few words a day.

At the end of the month, Xie Yao took a few days off and hung up a notice on his livestream and Weibo, saying that he needed to go home to visit his grandmother.

Then he packed a few things and took the high-speed train to city B to visit his grandmother.

The gatekeeper of the nursing home had worked there for many years, and Xie Yao would come to stay for a few days almost every month. In addition, his grandmother’s reputation as a teacher had spread far and wide, and Xie Yao’s handsome appearance made him quite recognizable.

This time, before he even got close with his luggage, the gatekeeper who was sitting in front of the gate with his legs crossed and chatting with other staff members saw him.

The uncle smiled and greeted him, “Xiao Xie is here!”

“Uncle Yao,” Xie Yao called back.

The security guard uncle’s surname is Yao. He is warm and generous. Every time Xie Yao comes, he chats with him for a while. Over the years, he has turned Xie Yao from a child with a “straight face” to a friendly boy who calls out to him when he sees him.

“Are you here to see your grandmother? Unfortunately, your grandmother was just pushed over by a little girl to my place for a few minutes, and she just went back. If you had come a little earlier, you could have caught up with her,” the uncle said with a smile.

Xie Yao shook his head and took out a can of tea from his bag.

“It doesn’t matter, I will see my grandmother sooner or later.”

“Last time you said you wanted to drink C city’s pear spring tea, so I brought you a can,” he handed the tea over.

Uncle Yao didn’t hesitate to take it and joked, “Before, you were like a poker face that even three sticks couldn’t hit a fart out of you. Now, you are thoughtful.”

Xie Yao’s mouth twitched, he pursed his lips and didn’t say anything.

The uncle not angry at his attitude, put down the tea can, and waved at him. “Alright, go see your grandmother.”

After that, he asked, “How long will you stay this time?”

Xie Yao told him that he only took a three-day leave and had to return before August 1st.

Uncle Yao said, “Okay, your aunt made a dish today. I’ll ask her to bring it to you tonight. I remember you and your grandmother both like it.”

Xie Yao picked up his luggage and walked towards the door. Uncle Yao used the remote control to open the door for him.

Xie Yao turned around and said, “Please tell my aunt thank you for us.”

Uncle Yao smiled and said, “I will remember, you should go now.”

A sanatorium is essentially a nursing home that combines various medical services, and because it was built with a high-end, humane design, it looks like a high-end villa community.

Every month, Xie Yao spends tens of thousands of yuan on basic rent and daily medical expenses, not to mention the “actors” who come to entertain his grandmother.

Xie Yao entered the door by entering the password, and was told by the nurse that his grandmother was already resting.

As people age, they get tired easily after a walk, and his grandmother fell asleep soon after returning home.

Xie Yao put his luggage in the room where he usually stayed and looked at his grandmother from a distance at the door, afraid of waking her up, so he didn’t go in.

The nurse closed the door and turned around to see Xie Yao chatting with others, most of the content was related to Ms. Tao.

The people Xie Yao hired to accompany his grandmother were not just there to entertain her, they all had their own jobs.

There were people managing the elderly’s property, taking care of their daily lives, cleaning and cooking, managing the flowers and plants, as well as a few caregivers and nurses. They just treated this place as their workplace.

“Just let them treat this place as their workplace.”

One of the younger nurses suddenly mentioned to Xie Yaoguang that someone had come to visit Tao Madam recently.

As soon as she mentioned it, the nurse remembered something.

“Oh, Xiao Xie, I almost forgot to tell you. That person seems to be the gamer you like!”

Xie Yao was taken aback. “You mean Praise?” He only had one favorite gamer, but how could Praise come here?

The nurse nodded. “Yes, him. I checked later, and he looks exactly like the pictures that Tao Madam often looks at. He may even be more handsome in person than in the pictures.”

Talking about Jiang Song, the nurse’s eyes lit up, as he was handsome after all.

“It seems that he said his father was a student of Tao Madam.”

The nurse glanced at Xie Yaoguang. “I didn’t expect you and your idol to have this kind of relationship.”

Xie Yao paused for a moment and didn’t want to say much, so he just made a sound of agreement.

Praise’s real name was Jiang Song. His father was a student of Xie Yao’s grandparents when they were still teaching at the university.

When Xie Yao was very young, his life was filled with various extracurricular classes such as piano, calligraphy, painting, violin, and so on.

He first met Jiang Song when Jiang Song was only thirteen years old.

Xie Yao was taken to school by his grandmother and halfway there, they ran into Jiang’s father, who had come to visit the teacher with Jiang Song.

At that time, Jiang Song was still a rebellious teenager, playing games on his phone throughout the entire process. Xie Yao, curious, leaned over to take a look.

It was the first time Xie Yao realized that there was more to the world than just schoolwork – there were games too.

However, the two didn’t see each other again until years later, at SUS’s youth training camp. It was their second meeting after many years.

When Xie Yao heard from the nurse that Jiang Song had come almost immediately after he left, he was disappointed that he had missed the chance to see him.

After a short while, Xie Yao’s grandmother woke up from her usual nap and he followed the nurse to her room.

His grandmother’s condition had been stable for the past few days, but she had not been conscious. Xie Yao stood in front of her and she smiled, but she did not recognize him as her grandson.

Xie Yao was already accustomed to this, so he helped his grandmother onto her wheelchair and pushed her to the dining room.

The auntie had already finished cooking the meal on time, and Xie Yao accompanied his grandmother to finish her meal. They chatted for a while and Xie Yao even received a bowl of food from the wife of the security guard.

By the time Xie Yao finally rested, it was already after nine in the evening.

There were several unread messages on his phone, and when Xie Yao checked, they were from both Jiang Song and Zhou Tian.

Zhou Tian’s messages were usually just meaningless banter and complaints, so Xie Yao quickly glanced over them and replied with a perfunctory “oh” before exiting the conversation and opening the one with Jiang Song.

The latest message from Jiang Song asked if Xie Yao had eaten yet.

Before coming to B city, Xie Yao had told Jiang Song that he was going to visit his grandmother, but he didn’t say where he was going.

Jiang Song didn’t ask, only reminding him to stay safe.

Xie Yao replied “I already ate” and explained that he had just been spending time with his grandmother and hadn’t checked his messages.

Jiang Song quickly replied.

Jiang Song: It’s okay, you do your thing.

They exchanged a few more messages before Xie Yao lay down in bed and suddenly remembered Praise.

He hadn’t talked to Praise much these past few days, and he felt like Praise was acting like they weren’t that close. This made him curious.

If that was the case, why did Praise go to such great lengths to match with him during their livestream a few days ago?

Gad: Brother, I want to ask you something.

Jiang Song laughed on the other end, this kid, when did he become so polite to him again?

Jiang Song: Ask away.

Gad: You should know that I matched with praise during the last live broadcast, but I feel like it wasn’t a coincidence, it seemed deliberate on praise’s part.

This wasn’t a difficult thing to guess.

That night, praise almost clicked “match” at the same time as Xie Yao for almost every game. If they didn’t match, he would quickly finish that round, leave some time for halftime, and then start the next round at the same time as Xie Yao.

Xie Yao noticed something was off, but he was afraid of overthinking it, so he probed a little.

Live broadcasts always have a delay, so even if they clicked “match” at the same time as they watched the live broadcast, there could be a timing error and they wouldn’t match. So Xie Yao suggested matching at exactly 8:30 pm.

He didn’t expect to actually match with praise, which proved that he wasn’t overthinking it.

But it shouldn’t be like this.

Xie Yao typed: I just want to ask, is this something to do with you?

The only thing he could think of now was Jiang Song.

On the other end, Jiang Song hesitated and probed: “What relationship are you referring to?”

The “typing” appeared in the top left corner for a moment, and Gad said: “Come on, I just want to ask if you asked praise to do this to help me gain followers and popularity.”

Praise’s popularity was easy to ride on, especially with something like this that he personally handed over to Xie Yao to ride on.

After the game that day, fans with sharp eyes immediately noticed these small details and propelled Xie Yao and Praise onto the hot search list.

When Xie Yao saw it that day, he panicked for a second, afraid that Praise would mind, so he immediately apologized.

But Praise just replied, “It’s okay.”

It’s… not normal.

Even though Xie Yao was a die-hard fan of Praise, he couldn’t help but admit that this was very abnormal.

On the other end, Jiang Song found it somewhat amusing that Xie Yao couldn’t figure out anything. He rubbed his forehead and sighed, thinking that this kid was really slow.

In the end, he just said, “You could say that.”

Xie Yao felt that Brother Jiang was really a good person.

After the conversation ended, it was already past eleven o’clock. Xie Yao finished washing up with these thoughts in mind, but when he returned to bed, he saw that Zhou Tian had sent him a bunch of complaints.

He usually talked to Zhou Tian about his own affairs, and today Xie Yao blurted out this matter to him. Not only that, but he also recounted to Zhou Tian all the things Jiang Song had helped him with since they met, including their interesting daily game playing, and the trophy Praise had given him.

He sent out a long stream of messages, but Zhou Tian only showed “typing” for a long time, appearing hesitant to speak.

Xie Yao kept typing away until midnight, feeling unsatisfied as he stared at the green bubbles on his screen.

“Are you going to stay up late and die on me? You didn’t say a word this whole time.”

“Reply!”

Xie Yao was impatient.

At this point, the person on the other side, Zhou Tian, finally said: “…I don’t know what to say.”

Not detecting the hesitation from the other side, Xie Yao remained expressionless: “Just say something.”

So the other side began repeating “the other party is typing…”

Just as Xie Yao’s patience was about to run out, Zhou Tian finally gave up and spoke: “My comment is that your boss is definitely interested in you.”